Olive wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have found that it is possible to turn pkgtool into a nice GUI program:
>
> Download Xdialog and install
>
> http://xdialog.dyns.net/
>
> replace /bin/dialog by Xdialog
>
> you are done pkgtool is now a nice GUI program. This trick work also for
> texconfig.
>
> The reason is that the dialog box displayed by pkgtool use "dialog" to
> display these. Xdialog is fully compatible with dialog but display X
> dialog box instead of the curse dialog box you see in the terminal.
>
> Olive

hoi,

works great here, looks very nice.

a few notes :
- compile it as root , otherwise it won't work ( well...here it didn't )

to install: ( workdir=/.../Xdialog-2.1.2/src )
-#mv /bin/dialog /bin/dialog.slack
-#cp Xdialog /bin/dialog

thanks for the tip.

cashmir